The Pod Charles Cinecast

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas explore their love of the cinema through the eyes of the staff of the independent record store in EMPIRE RECORDS . Sounds weird, but it is eerie how similar the vibes of the two places are. In honour of Rex Manning Day at The PCC on 8th April, we're talking the 1995 cult classic...

This week on Mr. Baseball, hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas get traded to the Chunichi Dragons of the Central League of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball League, much like how Tom Selleck got traded to the Dragons in the 1992 baseball romp – MR. BASEBALL! MR. BASEBALL (1992): A professional American baseball player whose career is on the wane, Jack Elliot (Tom Selleck) gets traded to the D...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas get their hands on a pair of mystical earrings that cause them to swap places with each other. It's Week 4, the final week, of WHAT ARE THE RULES : the body-swapping mini-arc, and we've completely jumped the shark with the 2002 Happy Madison production – THE HOT CHICK, starring...

It was only meant to be a brief chat about the movie in our SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME EPISODE (now available on Patreon.com/ThePCCPodcast ), but we kept on talking about Roland Emmerich's latest disaster (movie) MOONFALL, starring Patrick Wilson and Halle Berry. Jonathan watched it, Fil didn't; but that doesn't stop Fil from adding in his two cents based on his opinions from the trailer.  Enjoy...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to New York City, where a 30-year-old man named Josh Baskin is claiming to be a 13-year-old boy who has been zapped into an adult body, after making a wish on a Zoltar machine. It's Week 3 of our WHAT ARE THE RULES , our body-swapping mini-arc, and we're talking all the ups...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas make a wish with some magic dust and find themselves lost in a blackout; only to wake up 17 years in the future, with no idea of how they got there. It's Week 2 of our WHAT ARE THE RULES , our body-swapping mini-arc, and we're trying to get to the bottom of the 2004 rom-com clas...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas decide to get some Chinese food and find themselves in each other's bodies after reading a sinister fortune cookie. We begin a new mini-arc on the podcast – WHAT ARE THE RULES : THE ULTIMATE BODY-SWAP SHOWDOWN – where we are going through a handful of body swapping classics. Fir...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head back to the San Fernando Valley circa 1973 to determine if the relationship between a 25-year-old woman and a 15-year-old child star is appropriate. The Anderson vs. Anderson arc is back (as promised), with the 9th film from Paul Thomas Anderson – the 2021 coming-of-age com...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas venture to Gobblers Knob but awaken to find ourselves stuck in a time loop on GROUNDHOG DAY! Catch all the love and lore we can give for this Bill Murray starring and Harold Ramis directed classic! If you enjoy the podcast, leave a Rating and Review! It really helps us out! As alway...

On this wrap up episode of Season Two of FRANCHI$ED, hosts Jonathan Foster, Ariane Anantaputri & Fil Freitas give their final thoughts on the zombie films of George A. Romero and the Return of the Living Dead series, plus dish out some of their favourite moments of the season of brain-eating thrills! It's been a wild and crazy ride, but this is where we must end Season Two for now and open the...

"In an us-versus-them world, someone puts up a flag, another person tears it down and puts up his own. Pretty soon no one remembers what started the war in the first place and the fighting becomes all about those stupid flags." This week on FRANCHI$ED, hosts Jonathan Foster, Ariane Anantaputri & Fil Freitas enlist in the National Guard, only to find the world goes AWOL (zombies again...) and w...

"The more voices there are, the more spin there is. The truth becomes that much harder to find. In the end, it's all just noise." This week on FRANCHI$ED, hosts Jonathan Foster, Ariane Anantaputri & Fil Freitas drop in on a film school horror movie set, only to find the world is suddenly being taken over by the dead. As they try to make it out, one of the annoying film students decides to pull...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas return from Los Angeles, after attending the Nakatomi International Podcast Festival 2021. While en route from LA to Washington, DC, on their way to catch a plane back to London, the pair are stranded 40,000 feet in the sky. Why? Because, unbeknownst to Jon and Fil, some terrori...

"In a world where the dead are returning to life, the word 'trouble' loses much of its meaning." This week on FRANCHI$ED, hosts Jonathan Foster, Ariane Anantaputri & Fil Freitas try to escape the feudalistic microcosm of Fiddler's Green, but get caught up in the middle of a spat between the crew of the Dead Reckoning and the capitalist ruler of the city. Oh, and there is an army of zombies tha...

"Make me proud. Be the first black man to make it to the end." This week on FRANCHI$ED, hosts Jonathan Foster, Ariane Anantaputri & Fil Freitas head to Greendale Community College, where some contaminated taco meat is turning the student body into zombies! It's Ariane's pick for our third and final Zombie Side Mission of Season 2 – and she has chosen for us COMMUNITY S02E06 - EPIDEMIOLOGY, aka...

"Love never dies." This week on FRANCHI$ED hosts Jonathan Foster, Ariane Anantaputri & Fil Freitas, on their way to Seattle to make it big as the next Nirvana, decide to stake out a military base where they've heard human corpses are being exposed to a deadly gas that turns them into the Living Dead. Once there, they witness a young man re-animate his deceased girlfriend and all hell breaks lo...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas travel back in time using old show notes to try and figure out when did the whole show go wrong and if they can possibly fix it. Just as it seemed like they might have a lead, Jonathan decided to stick in a copy of THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT and things really got weird... It's Week 2...

" Just when you thought it was safe to be dead. " This week on FRANCHI$ED hosts Jonathan Foster, Ariane Anantaputri & Fil Freitas head back to the graveyard only to discover punk really is dead and the cemetary is just full of little kids unleashing dangerous gases that causes an acidic rain to come pouring from the sky, making the dead rise from their graves! Wait... haven't we done this alre...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, host Jonathan Foster sits down to talk with Writer, Director and Lead Star of THE BETA TEST – JIM CUMMINGS! Jim Cummings was scheduled to join us for two Live Q&A screenings at The Prince Charles Cinema alongside his latest film on Saturday 16th October, before contracting COVID-19 at the zero hour. With plans now u...

" They're Back From The Grave and Ready To Party! " This week on FRANCHI$ED hosts Jonathan Foster, Ariane Anantaputri & Fil Freitas meet up with a few punk rockers in a graveyard to talk about death, when all of a sudden an acidic rain comes pouring form the sky, causing the dead to rise from their graves! We've battled through the Night, Dawn, and Day of George A. Romero's Dead Trilogy, and n...

"Take car. Go to mum's. Kill Phil, grab Liz, go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over. How's that for a slice of fried gold?" This week on FRANCHI$ED hosts Jonathan Foster, Ariane Anantaputri & Fil Freitas take a detour to London, where we've heard rumours of a mysterious zombie outbreak. In this time of crisis a hero must rise...from his sofa. We've s...

"First there was 'Night of the Living Dead' then 'Dawn of the Dead' and now the darkest day of horror the world has ever known..." This week on FRANCHI$ED hosts Jonathan Foster, Ariane Anantaputri & Fil Freitas hold up in a military bunker with a group of scientists trying to figure out how to rid the world of the flesh-eating zombies. With the soldiers meant to be protecting them getting impa...

Our very own Fil is making a movie! The project is called "The Regulars" and follows the lives ushers working at The Prince Charles Cinema : dealing with customers, talking about movies, and having to get along with each other in the weird and wonderful cinema. It's based on real-life experiences and stories from those who work at The PCC and it needs YOU to help make it happen. Fil is seeking fun...

There is still no more room in hell and the Dead are still walking the earth! This week on FRANCHI$ED hosts Jonathan Foster, Ariane Anantaputri & Fil Freitas return to the scene of last week's crime in our first SIDE MISSION of Season Two! It's Fil's pick this time and he chose for us to cover Zack Synder's DAWN OF THE DEAD (2004). It's Synder's first film, it boasts a script by James Gunn, an...

Hey, everybody! Time to Shop til' You Drop! This week on FRANCHI$ED hosts Jonathan Foster, Ariane Anantaputri & Fil Freitas break into their closest shopping mall and camp out, in hopes that help will arrive. Only problem is : the place is overrun by flesh-eating zombies! We're of course tackling George A. Romero's 1978 horror masterpiece DAWN OF THE DEAD. He changed the game in 1968 with Nigh...